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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Interview 47 >> Andrea Giles, specialist screening practitioner, explains how people must prepare for a colonoscopy.

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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 24 >> On the morning of the colonoscopy he gave himself an enema to really clear his bowel of faeces.

Screened in 2001 and 2003. Results were normal. In 2005 he did another Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test. The result was unclear. Another test was abnormal, so he had a colonoscopy, during which two polyps were removed. These were not malignant.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Colonoscopy, all normal >> Interview 38 >> After she had taken the laxatives her husband helped her with her enema. It helped to wash out the remaining faeces from her bowel.

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer 3 times, between 2002 and 2006. The last Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test result was abnormal so she had a colonoscopy, but nothing abnormal was found in the bowel.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with cancer >> Interview 43 >> He was fully informed, went into hospital for a “pre-operation check”, and was very impressed with members of the pilot scheme team.

In 2005 he had a Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test, which was abnormal, so he had a colonoscopy, during which a polyp was found. Later he had a right hemi-colectomy and the polyp, which was found to be malignant, was removed.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with cancer >> Interview 46 >> She was given an enema on the day of the operation to prepare the bowel for surgery.

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer in 2006. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so she had a colonoscopy, when five polyps were removed. One polyp was cancerous, so she had a left hemi-colectomy.